In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 28
He left the guest-room, and presently returned with a white paper-fan, on which a silkworm-moth was sleepily reposing.
Who acts: Niimi, silkworm moth · What happens: leave, return, be, repose · To what, where: guest room
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niimi, silkworm moth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 4 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 guest | punct |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 9 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 left | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fan | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fan | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fan | amod |
| 14 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fan | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 paper | punct |
| 16 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sleepily | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sleepily | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moth | det |
| 21 | silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moth | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 silkworm | punct |
| 23 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sleepily | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sleepily | cop |
| 25 | sleepily | sleepily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 returned | conj |
| 26 | reposing | repose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sleepily | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Niimi | the guest room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | participle | Niimi not said here | with a white paper fan; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a silkworm moth | which obl; sleepily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repose | gerund | a silkworm moth not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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